Snohetta’s design for the Clarion Hotel Energy was completed and opened for guests on August 20th 2014. Located in Stavanger, Norway, the hotel stands as an architectural landmark and one of the attractions in the area. Commissioned for a volume and concept study to design the...
As part of the former Soviet Union, the urbanism and architecture of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan on the Western coast of the Caspian Sea, was heavily influenced by the planning of that era. Since its independence in 1991, Azerbaijan has invested heavily in modernising...
Located towards the Southern edge of Chaoyang Park, one of the largest parks in Beijing and China in general, Chaoyang Park Plaza is a result of the conception of the new Shanshui City. Shanshui City is an ongoing project to create a new city within...
MVRDV is set to oversee the construction of a new “spatially-flexible” tower with a twisting “hourglass figure” near Vienna’s world famous Gasometers. The 110-meter “Turm mit Taille” (Tower with Waist) will be located in a neighbourhood situated between the airport and the city centre that...
In an expo in 2010 at the center of China's largest city, Shanghai, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) was commissioned to design the Pavilion that would be the be all and end all of the exhibition geared towards showcasing Denmark's values as a nation. BIG architects designed the Pavilion...
It’s not every day you come across architects daring enough to investigate and design tall wooden structures - Tham & Videgård Arkitekter are doing just that. Planned for a site in the former transport harbour of Louden, which will soon be revived as a new...
The Miami Design District will be the recipient of a 14-story residential tower by Studio Gang Architects. Anchored by a ground floor retail street and topped with a residents’ lounge and swimming pool; the tower is set to create an invigorating lifestyle in the neighbourhood. The...
Located in the middle of a woodland forest in Victoria, Australia, Cabin 2 is an extension of an old log cabin in an area highly populated by holiday homes. Melbourne-based Maddison architects designed the new cabin to sit in contrast to the old building and connected by...
Located in North of Vietnam, Son La province is an ethnic cultural area with abundant nature of untouched forests and beautiful mountain landscapes. Even with its strong cultural and natural beauty; there was no little development or accommodation for tourists to recognize the city as...
This building was conceived courtesy of the need to design a campus for Suning.com, the online division of Suning-the leading electronics and home appliances company in China. The corporate campus while carrying forward the norm of designing campuses, it shakes off the corporate look by wrapping around...
Giraffe Manor is one of Nairobi’s most iconic buildings: characterful, picturesque, and enveloped in history like the foliage creeping over its brickwork. Set in 12 acres of private land within 140 acres of indigenous forest in the Langata suburb of Nairobi and with verdant green gardens, sunny...
Standing at the Bella Vista Sakaigahama Resort Hotel in Onomichi, Hiroshima; is a majestic wedding chapel on a hill that enjoys a panoramic view of the Inland Sea of Japan. How could the act of marriage be encapsulated in space? Well, by entwining two spiral...
Imagine yourself in a bedroom encapsulated within a turquoise blue bubble, watching shoals of reef fish swimming lazily by - sometimes in three or four layers of different species above the reef floor. This is the heart-stopping experience that awaits you in the underwater room. An...
Nanyang Technological University was looking to undertake the university's first ever redevelopment in twenty years. They sought a design that would transform the campus and be a landmark to which each student could relate. In their quest for a university-transforming design, they got starstruck by...
McLane Stadium is an American football stadium in Waco, Texas, completed in August 2014. It is owned and operated by Baylor University, home to the Baylor Bears. Intriguing facts about this stadium is that it is built on River Brazos, an engineering spectacle that has given...
Architecture shows respect its location by its materials, techniques and its contribution to the site. Several pieces have shown remarkable response to their location. Apart from the well-known examples of Falling Waters by Frank Lloyd Wright and Glen Murcatt's Marika-Alderton House , there are other hidden...
Valode & Pistre is set to break ground on Africa’s tallest tower this June. More than doubling the height of Johannesburg’s 223-meter Carlton Centre, which has been the continent’s tallest building since 1973; the Al Noor Tower (Tower of Light) is projected to rise 540-meters...
As part of the World Expo in 2012 in South Korea, Asymptote designed a bowl-shaped pavilion to be exhibited in the international fair for the Four Rivers Restoration project. The initiative of this project was to preserve the ecosystem of the rivers Han, Nakdong, Geum and...
Vietnam, historically an agricultural country is facing changes as it moves to a manufacturing based economy. This has taken a huge toll on the environment. Increased droughts, floods and salinization jeopardize food supplies, while numerous motorbikes cause daily congestion and air pollution in the cities....
The lakes of Vietnam have a lot of Lotus which was the concept behind the design of this pavilion with open-air exhibition spaces. The location of the project is Milan in Italy under sponsorship of the Vietnam Exhibition and Fair Centre. The theme of the Expo is a proposed...
The client, Fernando Torres, wanted a private residence that shared a connection with Lamu but remained secluded from the town itself. The brief was thus generated from the client’s passion for architecture; and his love for being in contact with nature. Combining these two attributes,...
The Butaro Hospital is a breathtaking building with intricate lava rock walls made of stones cut by Rwandan masons, and it is full of brightly coloured accent walls and breeze-ways bathed in light and air. Deep-green flora blossom everywhere. For the 340,000 people who live...
